Two Temple Place

Two Temple Place is a magnificent and eccentric neo-Gothic mansion in central London, owned and run by registered charity the Bulldog Trust. Since 2011, the major free annual exhibition programme showcasing regional public collections has invited 430,000 people to exhibitions that tell new stories which offer curating and employment opportunities for early-career cultural talent.

In keeping with the trust’s goal of creating opportunities for those without them, Two Temple Place’s flagship exhibition forms the heart of a busy year-round programme of community and cultural activity that offers opportunities to a wide range of people and shares the building with partners as a tool for conversation, education and advocacy. As a charity, the building generates income through fundraising and commercial hire. As a building, Two Temple Place inspires, provokes and welcomes creative reimaginings of its spaces, new retellings of its stories, and new artistic responses to its history and craftwork. 

Art has a class problem. Historically, the representation of working-class life has been filtered through the reductive and distorting lens of the middle-class gaze. 

Opening 25 January, Lives Less Ordinary: Working-Class Britain Re-seen, a major new exhibition at Two Temple Place, seeks to explore and address these inequities head-on.

See you there!